Chemistry and related Information on
the Internet

NOTES:

This does not aim to be a comprehensive list of
chemical information resources on the world wide web, but
a set of pointers to the many large Chemistry link collections
already available and direct links to a few sites of special
interest.

See Databases page
for links to Oxford University database subscriptions
of interest to Chemists

Publishing Your Research 101: a new educational, web-based video series, designed to support authors and reviewers with the process of writing, submitting, reviewing, and editing reports of original scientific research intended for publication in peer-reviewed journals

SPECTRa - Submission, Preservation and Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data: an eighteen month project to develop a set of customized software tools to enable chemists to routinely deposit experimental data, much of which is currently lost, in Open Access digital repositories.

COMPOUND/STRUCTURE/PROPERTY
databases

ChemSpider (RSC) - a chemistry search enginee which aggregates and indexes publicly available chemical structures and their associated information, incl. properties, into a single searchable repository

PubChem - provides information on the biological activities of small molecules

Protein Data
Bank (PDB) - international repository for the processing
and distribution of 3-D macromolecular structure data primarily
determined experimentally by X-ray crystallography
and NMR. Also at RCSB.

Search the content of all Knovel electronic reference books (including Chemical Properties Handbook, Chemistry of the Elements, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Dictionary of Substances and their Effects, and many others). Even if the required data is not available electronically, you can save time by finding out which table in which handbook has the required information.

Organic Reactions (Wiley) - can browse by Reaction Type and view reaction details and abstract, but we do not have full text access (RSL has print copy)

Sigma-AldrichReaction Database - this new online tool enables you to find detailed literature procedures for a desired transformation by entering the starting material and product-of-interest. In addition, the procedures include a list of reagents needed as well as links to their respective product detail pages for easy ordering.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases

NB: See Databases
page for major chemistry databases available via Oxford
University subscriptions

JOURNAL PAPERS

Synthesis
Reviews (Thieme) contains over 26,000 English language
review articles (from journals and books) of interest to
synthetic organic chemists, from 1970 to end-2009. Download
the whole database as a text file or an Endnote library

scitopia.org - a federated search portal created through the collaboration of 21 leading science and technology societies, incl. AIP, APS, Electrochemical Society, IoP, IUCr, Optical Society of America and Royal Society; also includes some patents and US government reports.

Open J-Gate: a database of journal articles from over 3000 open access journals, from 2001, with full text links to full papers.

Patent Lens - an independent, public-good global resource; can search and view full-text of more than 8 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, including their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries

Most CITED Chemistry Journals/Articles/Scientists

CAS Science
Spotlight shows the most highly Cited chemistry-related
research publications for 1999 -2002. An abstract, and
in most cases the full text, of papers/patents are provided
free of charge. Also listed are the most requested
and most intriguing journal articles.

ISIHighlyCited.com
lists the world's most Cited Researchers in 21 subject
areas. It will grow to include 250 researchers in each category,
based on the total number of citations received by their
articles, as recorded in the ISI Citation Databases. Categories
include Chemistry,
Physics
and Biology
& Biochemistry.

Fast Breaking
Papers (ISI) - those having the largest percentage
increase in citations in their respective fields from one
bimonthly update to the next: they represent recent scientific
contributions just beginning to attract the attention of
the scientific community.

TRANSLATIONS

Index
Translationum database contains bibliographical
information on books translated and published in UNESCO's
Member States since 1979 and totalling some 1,300,000 translations
in all disciplines incl. sciences.

CHEMICAL SUPPLIERS

Sigma-Aldrich
provides biochemicals, organic chemicals, chromatography
products, and diagnostic reagents. Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS) and information on more than 200,000 products
are available. Searchable by substructure, CAS registry
number, and browsable by brand name and area of interest.

biomedexperts (BME) - literature-based social networking platform for the life-science research communit, bringing the researchers together and allowing them to expand their professional network

AIP UniPHY - professional networking site for physical scientists: allows physicists and other scientists to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts and to identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations

Related
subjects

For Information on related subjects try
the following hubs/portals/link collections:

Intute - a network of Internet Resource
Catalogues providing access to descriptions of resources for education and research,
selected for quality and accuracy by UK academic subject specialists (closed July 2011 - no further changes to existing content)